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Article: High Expectations Mirror High Stakes for Physician Executives.
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- Physician Executive
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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Physician executives leave jobs for a number of reasons, only one of which-nonperformance--is rightly characterized as "being fired." In this chaotic marketplace, many traditional lines have been blurred, but getting fired is still a well-defined experience, and uncommon for physician executives.
It's incorrect to say you were fired if you were laid off in a downsizing, squeezed out as part of a merger, or if you departed from an organization's employ by mutual agreement. You may be gone, but you weren't fired. Being fired carries with it an implication of failure and blame, the suggestion that somehow you weren't up to the tasks required of you. In reality, many ...